Don't You Think that the "Innuendo" tracks Should have been in "Greatest Hits III" Instead Of Beeing in "Greatest Hits II", and put some more "Hot Space"tracks in "Greatest Hits II" ?

I Think That Should Have Been In "Greatest Hits III". What Do You Think? Here's my Track list for "Greatest Hits II" And "Greatest Hits III"

GH II GH III A Kind Of Magic The Show Must Go On Under Pressure Under Pressure (Rah Mix) Radio Gá Gá I'm Going Slightly Mad I Want It All Too Much Love Will Kill You I Want To Break Free Somebody To Love (Q + G.M.) One Year Of Love You Don't Fool Me It's a Hard Life Heaven For Everyone Breakthru Las Plabras de Amor Wants To Live Forever A Winter's Tale Body Language Innuendo The Miracle Scandal Princes Of Universe Let Me Live The Invisible Man Headlong Hammer To Fall No One But You Frends Will Be Frends Bites The Dust (Q+ W.J) Back Chat The Days Of Our Lives One Vision Thank God It's Christmas

I agree; though it could have been decided that no GHIII would be made after Freddie's death, they should have planned for it. Therefore, they should have taken a couple of Miracle and Innuendo tracks off and put some more Hot Space tracks or A Kind Of Magic tracks, something like that.

Like so:

A Kind Of Magic Under Pressure Radio Ga Ga I Want It All I Want To Break Free Back Chat It's A Hard Life Scandal Who Wants To Live Forever Action This Day (great song) The Miracle Body Language The Invisible Man Hammer To Fall Friends Will Be Friends The Show Must Go On One Vision

I think "Greatest Hits II" is ok. But I'm not sure about many ideas put into life on "Greatest Hits III". I wouldn't put "Show Must Go On" with Elton John on it. It was not a single and - let's face it - it's weak! The remix of "Under Pressure" also should have been ommitted, but they just tried to have something new to promote the album. I think people would buy the album, even if Rah Mix wasn't there. The single flopped anyways. It's also quite controversial idea to put the solo stuff on a Queen album, but ok - "Barcelona" and "Driven By You" were big hits and people associate them with Queen, so ok. Instead of "Show Must Go On" and "Pressure" I would put "A Winter's Tale" and "Body Language" on it.

GH I would be(the original US version plus three bonus tracks and songs from 1973-81): Another One Bites the Dust Bohemian Rhapsody Crazy Little Thing Called Love Killer Queen Fat Bottomed Girls(single mix) Bicycle Race Under Pressure(with David Bowie) We Will Rock You We Are the Champions Flash(single mix) Somebody to Love You're My Best Friend Keep Yourself Alive Play the Game Tie Your Mother Down(single mix) Seven Seas of Rhye Save Me

GH II would be tracks from 1982-89: A Kind of Magic Radio Ga Ga I Want it All(single mix) Las Palabras De Amor I Want to Break Free(single mix) Princes of the Universe The Invisible Man(12" mix intro with album version) Back Chat It's a Hard Life Friends Will Be Friends Breakthru Body Language Hammer to Fall(single edit) Who Wants to Live Forever(video edit) Calling All Girls Scandal One Vision(single mix) The Miracle

GH III would be 1991 to present: Innuendo Too Much Love Will Kill You Headlong Heaven For Everyone(single mix) Somebody to Love(with George Michael) I'm Going Slightly Mad Let Me Live These Are the Days of Our Lives A Winter's Tale Under Pressure(1999 Rah Mix) You Don't Fool Me Another One Bites the Dust Remix by Wyclef Jean The Show Must Go On No One But You The Show Must Go On(with Elton John)

I don't think you could have got away with putting Body Language/Calling All Girls on GH2. They're just shit songs that would really stand out as such amoungst the bigger hits.

Queen had their pick of commercial hits to choose from and they chose the best. Obviously GHIII is a cobbled-together release that I still find difficult to comprehend. Still not so bad, however, as to include Body Language/Calling All Girls ;-)

GH II was released in '91. They knew Freddie was dying, so they didn't expect Queen to get any substantial number of hits posthumously, so they didn't expect that there was ever going to be a GH III in the first place. For that reason, I think they were right in including the Innuendo tracks.

exactly - although when you consider Queen only allowed songs that charted at 24 or above in the UK to be included it did leave a potential GH3 a bit bare, as was proved later.

Also, if you look in the GHV2 booklet it states that Calling All Girls, Scandal, Body Language, Back Chat etc. were all eligible hits but not included in GH2 for the reason that "Queen had too many hits". So why weren't they in GH3? Even better wouldn't have been to release GH3 at all, yet instead release another studio album made up of NOBY, TGIC, WWRY (fast), Under Pressure (rah mix) plus b-sides/finished demos etc.